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The gifting of Mariah b. Qibtiyyah to the Prophet ﷺ and birth of his son, Ibrahim AS

hakim:6819Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Bālawayh > Ibrāhīm b. Isḥāq al-Ḥarbī > Muṣʿab b. ʿAbdullāh al-Zubayrī

Then the Messenger of Allah ﷺ married Mariah b. Shamun, who was gifted to him by the Muqawqis (Cyrus, man of the Caucasus), the ruler of Alexandria. She came with her sister Sirin and a eunuch called Mabur. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ gifted Sirin to Hassan b. Thabit. Coptic Muqawqis and them were Christians. Mariah bore Ibrahim to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ in the month of Dhu al-Hijjah in the eighth year of Hijrah. Ibrahim died in Madinah when he was eighteen months old.  

الحاكم:٦٨١٩حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو بَكْرٍ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ بَالَوَيْهِ ثَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ الْحَرْبِيُّ ثَنَا مُصْعَبُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الزُّبَيْرِيُّ قَالَ

ثُمَّ تَزَوَّجَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ مَارِيَةَ بِنْتَ شَمْعُونَ وَهِيَ الَّتِي أَهْدَاهَا إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ الْمُقَوْقِسُ صَاحِبُ الْإِسْكَنْدَرِيَّةِ وَأَهْدَى مَعَهَا أُخْتَهَا سِيرِينَ وَخَصِيًّا يُقَالُ لَهُ مَابُورُ فَوَهَبَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ سِيرِينَ لِحَسَّانَ بْنِ ثَابِتٍ وَالْمُقَوْقِسُ مِنَ الْقِبْطِ وَهُمْ نَصَارَى وَوَلَدَتْ مَارِيَةُ لِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ إِبْرَاهِيمَ فِي ذِي الْحِجَّةِ سَنَةَ ثَمَانٍ مِنَ الْهِجْرَةِ وَمَاتَ إِبْرَاهِيمُ عَلَيْهِ الصَّلَاةُ وَالسَّلَامُ بِالْمَدِينَةِ وَهُوَ ابْنُ ثَمَانِيَةَ عَشَرَ شَهْرًا  

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